7.5% WER is much much worse than the state of the art, but it's also important to recognize that LibriSpeech is kind of a ridiculous data set. It's 1000 hours o

7.5% WER is much much worse than the state of the art, but it's also important to recognize that LibriSpeech is kind of a ridiculous data set. It's 1000 hours of volunteers reading public domain novels out loud. It's very unlikely to match your use case. It's widely used in academia purely because it's larger than other freely available data sets.